FLW Outdoors’ Bass Fishing League Chevy Wild Card event is set to take place on Pickwick Lake Oct. 29-30 in Florence, Ala. Anglers who entered all five tournaments in a BFL division this season and did not qualify for any other BFL regional are eligible to compete in this no-entry-fee tournament for a shot at advancing to the no-entry-fee BFL All-American presented by Chevy.
Qualified anglers may enter starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5 by calling FLW Outdoors at (270) 252-1000 or via the FLWOutdoors webswite. Registration for the Chevy Wild Card will close at 6 p.m. Central time Oct. 28. Qualified anglers may enter as a boater or co-angler regardless of how they fished tournaments during the 2010 season.
Anglers fishing the Chevy Wild Card may participate in an optional pot, which will be awarded to the top 20 percent of the field. The optional pot fees are $200 for boaters and $100 for co-anglers. Anglers participating in the optional pot will automatically be entered into a big bass pot, which will be paid each day.
All ties will be broken by the heaviest one-day stringer. Those still tied will remain tied except for ties for sixth place, which will be broken by 2010 divisional points standings.
There is no official practice period or off limits period prior to the pretournament meeting. No contestant may, however, be on tournament waters for the purpose of locating bass or potential fishing waters after the start of the pretournament meeting except during tournament hours.
Registration will be held at the Florence/Lauderdale Coliseum located at 702 East Veterans Dr. in Florence from 3 to 6 p.m. Oct. 28. The pretournament meeting will be held at the same location starting at 7 p.m.
McFarland Park, located at 200 James M. Spain Dr. in Florence, will host daily takeoffs and weigh-ins at 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., respectively, Oct. 29-30.
The top six boater and top six co-angler finishers at the Wild Card will advance to the 2011 All-American.
The 2010 Chevy Wild Card is hosted by Florence/Lauderdale Tourism.
Bass Fishing League competition is a 24-division league circuit devoted to weekend anglers, that offers even bigger prizes to qualifiers of the regional championship and those who make it to one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing – the BFL All-American presented by Chevy. Top winners in the BFL can move up to the American Fishing Series or even the FLW Tour.
ABOUT FLW OUTDOORS
FLW Outdoors, named after Forrest L. Wood, the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, is the largest fishing tournament organization in the world offering anglers worldwide the opportunity to compete for millions over the course of 189 tournaments in 2010. For more information about FLW Outdoors and its tournaments, call (270) 252-1000.By: Chad Gay, Public Relations Manager
